Motion to Compel Further Responses to Special Interrogatories
The Motion by Plaintiff Tiffany Entminger (“Plaintiff”) to compel Defendant loanDepot.com, LLC (“Defendant”) to provide further responses to Special 3Interrogatories, Set Two, and for an award of monetary sanctions in the amount of $1,200, is GRANTED.
A party may serve interrogatories to obtain discoverable information. Code Civ. Proc. § 2030.010; see alsoWilliams v. Superior Court (2017) 3 Cal.5th 531, 541 (“A party may use interrogatories to request the identity and location of those with knowledge of discoverable matters.”). The party responding to interrogatories must answer in a manner as “complete and straightforward as the information reasonably available” permits; if the interrogatory cannot be answered completely, then it must be answered to the extent possible. Code Civ. Proc. § 2030.220(b).
A party may file a motion to compel further responses to interrogatories if the response received is inadequate, incomplete,